An old friend, Sekoale Malete, passed away on Thursday.
Statistics as a summative tapestry of what has happened and as instruments for prediction has never been so much in the face of society as is in 2020.
Coronavirus has struck at the heart of measurement and is almost obliterating ten years of hard work.
The number unemployed in this age group has grown by almost 1million and now number 1. 7million in 2019.
A catharsis from a vigorous evacuation of the political bowels is what we need at this time.
CRVS should focus on measurement of poverty, and this from a multidimensional perspective.
In economics being positive needs to take in account reality and hard facts writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
It is when times are tough that conjecture and false prophets emerge with opium to delude our minds of our material conditions.
25 years into democracy we have reduced ourselves to a people who are up for sale and divorced from consciousness that drove Madiba’s vision for SA.
At its best, development communication should be a sum total of focused planning, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
The former chairperson of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has had a colourful career writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
An Afrikaner intellectual has fallen. Professor David Stoker writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
The aspirations of the NDP is to set SA on a path towards a developmental state akin to the model of the East Asia Tigers. writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
For five years now, statisticians, the bean counters of nations, have been the busy bees of the world writes Dr Pali Lehohla
Each time I am in Ghana I draw inspiration from this vast market of determined women writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
Coalition politics are generally a positive feature of a maturing body politic writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
When you make value visible and not appropriate it, you deserve to be a product for consumption writes Pali Lehohla.
The report of the Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke on growth numbers for the second quarter had a chilling effect on SA writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
The demography of a nation is not complete without the documentation of births, deaths, marriages and divorces writes Pali Lehohla.
The Statistician- General of South Africa, Risenga Maluleke, released the Citizen Satisfaction Survey for KwaZulu-Natal, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
Two weeks ago, statistician-general Risenga Maluleke released inflation-adjusted poverty lines for the year 2018 writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
The burden arising from medical conditions and its implications on the economy arise because of the gap between diagnostics and therapy.
Little did I expect that during BRICS 22OnSloane would be privileged as the venue that would host the BRICS First Ladies writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
That South Africa's economy has remained (and continues to be) comatose for almost eight years, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.
. I will cast the statistical lens at what tourism means for the past, current and the future writes Dr Pali Lehohla.